Addendum to the cover memo/Clarification (Spoiler alert!)

First, the timestamps on these posts appear to have been shifted two hours ahead. I don't know why that is (I probably forgot to change my time zone in my haste). Rest assured that this project was in a final, completed state by the 11:59 am deadline. I swear.

Speaking of the timestamps, these posts were done in reverse order precisely so that they would display "right-side-up" on-screen, as blogs are presented in anti-chronological order. (That much worked; however, I shifted the final post back in time a year, in hopes it would be hidden unless I explicitly linked to it, which I did in the penultimate post. No luck though, it still shows up.)

I also (intentionally) left out the stated purpose of my project from my cover memo/E-mail. So, as a warning, DO NOT read the rest of this post if you don't want to blow the conclusion.

Ok, ready?

This composition, in essence, challenges the value of rhetoric--something which we haven't done much of in this course. It does so by comparing my blog (which, as I'll explain anon, is as unpopular as Hanson's second album despite its use of many rhetorical devices) to my fan fiction (which is exponentially more popular, despite a near-total lack of rhetoric). Along the way I delineate a few potential reasons for this disparity in popularity--and possible junctures where my rhetoric was useless or greatly diminished in effect.

Ok, no more spoilers, and no more preambulary stuff. Here goes...